Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning that Edward VIII gave new standards to his Guards, Jerome Bannigan, a clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon...
...special constable along the line of the King's march. He put on the flat-topped cap that distinguished Britain's part-time policemen from the helmeted professionals, and took up his post part way down Constitution Hill. He did not know it, but George Andrew McMahon was standing almost behind...
...subject, proved it when he was challenged to write one on a piece of string. Franklin Roosevelt could boast with equal assurance of his ability to turn any thing, event, theme or person to his own polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project not only in his home state but in the whole East. Said...
Married. Adelaide Moffett, 23, daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett, one-time (1934-35) Federal Housing Administrator; and David Brooks, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; in Manhattan...
...local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...